What is Microsoft Dynamics NAV?

Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers growing small and midsize business a powerful yet cost-effective solution that can be tailored for your company. It can support customization and add-in software to meet industry or other specific needs. In addition, it can adapt as a growing business needs more power and functionality.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV addresses the following business needs:

Financial management

Record and store financial records in a central general ledger that includes charts of accounts, balances, VAT reporting, and more.

- Define your preferred currency.
- Create accounting periods based on your fiscal and business cycle.
- Manage bank accounts and cash.
- Automate routines such as check-writing, bank statement reconciliation.

Manufacturing

Manufacturers can respond quickly to customer demands and improve manufacturing performance by automating and improving processes such as:

- Production-order management.
- Supply and capacity planning.
- Visibility into shop floor operations.
- Graphics-based production schedules.

Business intelligence

Turn raw data into understanding of how a business is operating.

- Choose from basic or advanced analytics functionality.
- Provide decision makers with a 360-degree view of performance.
- Set up graphical reports and displays, using an interface similar to Microsoft Outlook 2003.

Sales and marketing

Put customer information at the fingertips of managers and employees to help your people build better customer relations.

- Manage contact information.
- Organize sales campaigns.
- Identify sales opportunities.
- Automate sales tasks.
- Set up automatic reminders.

Distribution

Microsoft Dynamics NAV gives businesses a flexible solution for solving distribution challenges. It can be used to:

- Track and manage inventory, including in multiple locations.
- Get up-to-date information about in-stock quantities.
- Implement better warehouse management, including tailored pick orders and stock replenishment by pre-set thresholds.
- Get real-time data regarding inventory and shipments.

Integration with your systems

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is designed to work smoothly with other Microsoft products such as Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft SQL Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP. For example, documents written with Microsoft Word can take data from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV database and incorporate that information into a customer letter. Workers can use Microsoft Excel to create reports with up-to-date figures imported from Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Commerce portal capabilities also allow a company to create a Web site to work easier with customers and partners.

In addition, Microsoft Dynamics NAV also can be integrated with a wide range of other software products, so even if a small business already has substantial IT infrastructure, it can be used with Microsoft Dynamics NAV so that a business makes the most of its IT investment.